Please take this opportunity to have some fun while you show your concern and your commitment!

8-12 walkers to carry lightweight signs (8 new signs will be provided; we also need No Pipeline yard signs, so bring yours if you have one)

That’s 19-23 people at a minimum—and we have commitments from 11 so far, so YOU are definitely needed!

Specifics:

Show up at the Blacksburg Presbyterian Church parking lot (use Hemlock Street) at 1:00 pm on Saturday, July 4. (Please report your commitment to do so to Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, malbon@vt.edu, if you have not done so already.).

We will organize who is to carry what, then walk together with our gear to our lineup position on Eheart Street. If we are in place by 1:30, we will be judged—and we do have an awesome dragon!

The parade begins at 2:00 and travels about half a mile, from the old middle school site to VT mall.

If possible, wear something red or blue (to match the No Pipeline yard signs and buttons). If you have a button, wear it. If you have a yard sign, bring it. Bring your own bottle of water.

At least some walkers will need to continue to Christ Episcopal Church (behind the downtown post office) after the parade to drop off the dragon, signs, shields, and swords for later pickup.

About Preserve the NRV

Preserve the NRV is a citizen advocacy group working to stop the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline. The group will work with the citizens of the New River Valley, as well as all of the impacted regions in Virginia and West Virginia to advance a shared mission of stopping the pipeline project and, if necessary, advise on any possible construction routes and sites for the proposed pipeline that would diminish the negative consequence of the project on the environment, land, and citizens of Virginia and West Virginia.